Blackberry Phones and Services in India

This is a discussion on Blackberry Phones and Services in India within Gadgets, Computers & Software, part of the Shifting gears category; Ok i got a newbie question. So i started using the BB 9700 yesterday, loving it so far. But today ...

Ok i got a newbie question. So i started using the BB 9700 yesterday, loving it so far. But today randomly my phone keeps beeping with the "Soar" sound notifaction although there is nothing on screen- no new email/msn/sms/bbm etc. Then i went into the profiles to check which notification is the Soar sound assigned to and it was "Level 1"
What is this "Level 1" message and why doesn't it show anything incoming on screen? The random beeping sounds if very irritating.

But this is a switch between the same carrier why would it need number portability?

For Reliance the Number series of CDMA & GSM are different. They do not cross allot the number series as of today (i.e CDMA series to GSM phone & viceversa). What you are looking at is called Number Portability (Intra : Within the same operator) which is currently not supported by Reliance

Ok i got a newbie question. So i started using the BB 9700 yesterday, loving it so far. But today randomly my phone keeps beeping with the "Soar" sound notifaction although there is nothing on screen- no new email/msn/sms/bbm etc. Then i went into the profiles to check which notification is the Soar sound assigned to and it was "Level 1"
What is this "Level 1" message and why doesn't it show anything incoming on screen? The random beeping sounds if very irritating.

I believe PIN messages are Level 1 by default - but they would show in your inbox.

Under the Number Portability policy, Reliance has to allow you to carry your number from CDMA to GSM, as also allowing you to switch to other service providers when you want. And the service providers are not supposed to charge any fee either for doing so. Been waiting for the policy to kick in for a long time - it was announced in Feb/Mar '09.

I read somewhere here that it's going for 35-40k at Heera Panna. These guys are making close to 70% profit !

One more newbie query: Whats the delay time between emails reaching the phone? I see an email come up on my hotmail and Gmail but there is quite a bit of delay(atleast 15mins or more) by the time it gets pushed to my phone. Also if there is another email that has come within the delay time it retrieves both together rather than a FIFO method.
Network signal is full so thats not the issue here.

Mine is exactly opposite experience. Majority of emails are delivered to my BB atleast few seconds before its shown on the desktop that is on broadband. But when it comes to team-bhp subscribed threads (only 4 or 5), many new replies are delivered to the phone and mail inbox within a 1 hr to 4 hr delay.

So is there any way I can change some settings etc to fix this delay problem? It's very irratic, sometimes it comes without minor delay at other times its several minutes. But never before the my desktop.

I think it depends on the BB servers more than anything else, if you have a different BB handset at home, thats a method to test if its gadget related. In my last 2 years BB usage, I have always received Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail deliveries instantly (being on broadband almost 10 hours Mon-Fri) which I have always compared from handset to desktop.